The New York Mail and Express says in regard to 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales,' by Oscar Wilde: 'It was the fashion to laugh at Mr. Wilde when he was in this country, and no doubt that there was much that was laughable about him, but he was not the fool so many thought him, for he accomplished the object which brought him here—he made money. His verse was not free from the affectations of the period, but there were genuine touches in it, and one delightful lyric which his readers will recall. His forte, however, was prose, and just such prose as he gives us in this collection of fairy stories. There are five of them, 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Devoted Friend', and 'The Remarkable Rocket.' They are prettily and brightly written, and ought to please the little lovers of folk-lore. The illustrations by Mr. Walter Crane and Mr. Jacomb Hood are charming.